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func selfConnect(fd *netFD, err error) bool {
	// If the connect failed, we clearly didn't connect to ourselves.
	if err != nil {
		return false
	}

	// The socket constructor can return an fd with raddr nil under certain
	// unknown conditions. The errors in the calls there to Getpeername
	// are discarded, but we can't catch the problem there because those
	// calls are sometimes legally erroneous with a "socket not connected".
	// Since this code (selfConnect) is already trying to work around
	// a problem, we make sure if this happens we recognize trouble and
	// ask the DialTCP routine to try again.
	// TODO: try to understand what's really going on.
	if fd.laddr == nil || fd.raddr == nil {
		return true
	}
	l := fd.laddr.(*TCPAddr)
	r := fd.raddr.(*TCPAddr)
	return l.Port == r.Port && l.IP.Equal(r.IP)
}